An Unrestored Woman
And Other Stories
$29.46
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
13 June 2017
Summary
In AN UNRESTObRED WOMAN, the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 cuts a jagged path through the lives of ordinary women and men, leaving ripples of sorrow through time and space. Each couplet of stories spans the Indian subcontinent, from refugee camps and torched trains to the spacious verandas of the British Raj, and billows into the wider world. An old woman recounts the murdering of what was most precious to her, and the many small cuts that led her to that act. A girl forced…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349006475 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0349006474 |
| Author: | Shobha Rao |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Fleet |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 13 June 2017 |
| Weight: | 208g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 22mm |
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Shobha Rao writes, with equal power, of the turmoil and tragedy of Great Events, but also the small, intimate lives of those doomed to live through them. In her vivid descriptions of other times and places, people rise above or fall beneath the wheel of history, but all have stories to tell and the wonderful Rao to tell them. This transporting debut will linger in your mind long past the last page
About The Author
Shobha Rao
Shobha Rao moved from India to the USA at the age of seven. She won the 2014 Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction and is the recipient of the Elizabeth George Foundation fellowship. Her work has been published in numerous literary journals, including Tincture, PMS (poemmemoirstory), Nimrod and WaterStone Review. She lives in San Francisco.
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